Otherness

The story A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, presents different scenes in which the main character Nora questions her identity, and is confronted with the realization of living under her husband’s shadow. Throughout the play, Nora interacts with her husband in different ways that help her understand that she needs to find her own interests and passions, as she has lived under the expectations of society during the 19th century. While experiencing the roles of the 19th century, Nora comes…

Research Paper Mother, Daughter Relationship in The Dark Holds No Terrors Abstract : Shashi Deshpande a talented Indian novelist has written boldly on man woman relationship, particularly the relationship between husband and wife, father and daughter and mother and daughter. Person to person and person to society relationship are the main concerns to her. In this novel Shashi Deshpande has shown the conflicts between the mother and daughter. Mother is a traditional woman while daughter is…

CREATING THE AFRICAN MYTH Often times, when very little is known about a topic, we as humans tend to fill in the blanks with the signs to which we have been exposed. Eventually, these signs and their meanings begin to stick in our minds and the minds of a society as unquestionably accurate, thus a myth is created. This is the case with G.W.F. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History. Hegel addresses the significance of Africa and Africans in comparison to the rest of the world by analyzing physical…

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, enacted in 1982, as well as, beforehand, federal and provincial human rights codes that were introduced in the 1960s and the 1970s has paved Canadian disability rights legislation to evolve through the lens of a human rights advocacy approach. The Canadian Human Rights Act and provincial human rights codes prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities. Conversely, the Equality Rights Section (section 15) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and…

social class, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, size and weight, the way we articulate words, gender, the way we dress etc.. Discrimination is extremely harmful to everyone, and we need to learn how to deal with a society that discriminates “otherness” or being different and forms prejudices displayed in how “others” are treated poorly and unfairly. Discrimination is a behavior that separates groups or people from others, in turn, they are treated differently by others (Gender…

are forced to interact—the self-portrait turns into a sort of breeding ground. The subsistence of each self-portrait is “not self-sustaining or coherent within itself, not a pure, unidirectional show of individual agency, but always contingent on otherness” (Jones 971). Each portrait, regardless of their different historical contexts, requires a fleshing out of their represented and embodied subject through viewer…

Amandla Stenberg, a young actress and social justice activist, stated in a recently uploaded YouTube video, “What if America loved Black people as much as they loved Black culture?”, she was referencing a deep rooted issue that lately has been a key concern within racism in America. Cultural appropriation is the adoption or “borrowing” elements of one culture by a member of another culture. Cultural appropriation is a form of internal racism that may or may not be in an intentionally negative…

The ghost is the angel who has lost themselves in serving others, sometimes to her own demise. In the words of Gilbert and Gubar she becomes “a messenger of the mystical otherness of death” (817). Although this is not as common in literature, the ghost haunts Frankenstein in many ways. The angel turned ghost is the other woman that Frankenstein loved: his own mother. Caroline Beaufort took care of her ill father selflessly…

Chicanas in America faces difficulties when seeking their identity. Although Chicanas/o find it difficult to balance two cultures, they feel isolated doing so. The author acknowledges the power of what art and literature obtains when carrying out their goal or message. Chicanas uses these tools to aware the public about issues they face and how hard it is to be a Chicana in two distinct cultures. Many Chicana struggles with their identity and they communicate through art and literature.…

encouragement to cherish a dream of freedom.” More importantly, ‘seasoning’ included physical and psychological methods of breaking the willpower and any connections the African slave may still have with Africa. It was equally done to suggest a form of otherness. To quote Dr. Delridge, L Hunter in The Death of the Negro, “We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and in order to make an indication we must make a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction…